1812. 
Ford 
Where is the ford ? - - 
Sea-water, or Sea - - - 
Whale 
Valley, or Watery place - 
Path, or Road - - - - 
Horse - - - _ - - 
Mare - - - - - - 
Goat 
Ox 
Cow ------- 
Milk 
Bread, or food of that kind 
Knife 
Waggon - - - - - 
THE KORA LANGUAGE. 
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Khorum (Coroom). Here the h gives a strong aspiration to 
the K. 
Barha, (or Baba) KJirumka ? 
Huri'kamma (Hooricamma). 
'Karrab. 
'Karreep. In this word the p is nearly silent. 
'Tarro ('Tarrow). 
Haap (Harp). 
Has (Hars). 
Bri (Bree). 
'Komdamp ('Comarmp). This and the following five words 
are probably written correctly ; although (see Vol. I. 
p. 201.) they are not offered with certainty. 
'Komdas, or 'Komas, ('Comass). 
Blip (Beep). 
Bariip (Bareep). 
' Kwaans or ' Kodns (Cowarnce). 
' Korokemp. 
The preceding list of words was written down, after they had been 
several times repeated by the native from whom I had them. The 
orthography will, I think, express exactly his pronunciation as it 
sounded to my ear ; but it ought at the same time to be explained 
that some letters are in a few cases, commutable, as for instance, 
the V for the though this may be occasioned either by a careless 
manner of speaking, or by that species of impediment in the organs 
of speech, from which some individuals find a difficulty in uttering 
particular letters or combinations, and therelbre substitute in their 
place, others of more easy enunciation. 
\^th. As the business of cutting and drying our buffalo-meat, 
had detained us till a late hour, we advanced but a few miles, and 
halted for the night at the foot of a hill known to the Klaarwater 
Hottentots by the name of Blink-klip (Shining Rock) ; but to the 
Bachapins, by that of Sensavdn. 
It is a very remarkable mass of rock rising out from the eastern 
end of a ridge of hills. As we approached it, I easily, even at a 
considerable distance, discovered by its brown color and shape, that 
it was of a nature different from any which we had hitherto seen. * 
• The engraving at page 233. is a representation of it, as viewed on the northern 
side. The entrance to the mine is in front, at the foot of the rock ; but is not visible 
